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Installation using the online installer

You can go to https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/ and select the Visual Studio 2017 edition that best suits your need and then download it. There are three different editions available--Visual Studio Community 2017, Visual Studio Professional 2017, and Visual Studio Enterprise 2017.

The Visual Studio Community edition is a free, fully-featured IDE for students, open source developers, and individual developers. In all these cases, you can create your own free or paid apps using the Visual Studio 2017 Community edition. Organizations will also be able to use the Community edition, but only under the following conditions:

In an enterprise organization, an unlimited number of users can use the Community ...

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